Here are suggested issues in your personal life and in governments whose result can be a matter of choice.  Pick one to work on as you take this journey into the Interactive Peace Museum.

An Issue of Human Rights

1.    Women are being treated like property of their husbands.  What can be done?

2.  There is an active slave trade in your country.  What can be done?

3.  There is genocide taking place in a foreign country.  What can you do?

4.  In the 1994 Rwandan tragedy, many children were separated from their parents.  Who can help reunite displaced families?  How can it be done?

5.  Hate crimes are being committed in your community.  What can be done to stop the learned bigotry which leads to
hate crimes?

SOMEWHERE IN AMERICA.....
EVERY HOUR Someone commits a hate crime.
EVERY DAY At least eight blacks, three whites, three gays, three Jews and one Latino become Hate Crime Victims.
EVERY WEEK A Cross is burned.

or choose your own issue.  Make sure to state the issue clearly.  Write it out on a piece of paper.
In fact, you might want to jot down the various paths you have taken as you venture through the Museum.

After you have picked one issue to work on, scroll down and pick three things you could do to resolve this issue.  If you would like to read a prayer before going on, click here.  If you would like to walk a labyrinth to meditate on your issue before starting, click here.  http://www.lessons4living.com/finger_labyrinth.htm   One way to walk the labyrinth which you might like:  First circle:  state your issue, Second Circle:  state the emotions around the issue.  Third Circle:  State the physical and economic ramifications of your issue.  Fourth Circle:  How does this issue effect you personally and spiritually?  Fifth Circle:  Ask whoever is your highest power to help you.  Sixth Circle:  You get a manifestation.  It may be what you already thought, but it may be something completely different.  Seventh Circle:  You get the first step.  Middle:  Relax-don't think.  As you come out of the labyrinth, in each circle think about what you learned.  Peace!

For those who question whether their thoughts effect others, click here for a fascinating experiment:
http://www.globaldialoguecenter.com/emoto_exhibit_flash.html

1.  Below are various techniques & steps you may choose to take to address your Issue of Human Rights.
    Click on the three which you think would be most helpful.

2.  After picking the three techniques/steps you think would be most helpful, research each by
     a)  Clicking on the suggested web links  and
     b)  Research each technique/step on the web; in your library; with an expert of your choice.

3.  If you would like to clarify your learning:
    a.  List your issue.
    b.  List the three choices you made and detail the research you have done on each.
    c.  State why you think that step or technique will work or not work.  You might want to consider some of the questions
         below in your analysis:
         1.  Is the step pro-active or reactive?
         2.  Can the step be done by yourself or do you need to create or join an organization?
         3.  Does the step mean that the culture in which you live has to change?  In what way?
         4.  Does the step mean that the structure of your government has to change?  In what way?
         5.  Is this a step to be taken world-wide, country-wide or on a smaller basis?
         6.  If this is a step you can take by yourself, what are the risks involved?
    d.  State what you think the results of your intervention will be.
    e.  State what you might want to do next, if anything.  (examples:  1.  form a discussion group through email or in         
         your geographic area  2.   do further research.)

4.  If you would like,  send your summary in an email to the author of the Interactive Peace Museum.  I would be happy to
     learn from you what you think of the Interactive Peace Museum, what you liked about it, and what could be improved.
     If you have techniques or steps and links you think would be useful in this website, please send them to me.  Thanks!     

The Road to Human Rights:   Techniques and Steps

http://www.tolerance.org  "Hate can only be conquered by ordinary people willing to promote tolerance.  You may already be one of them.  Please share your successful strategies with the rest of America by dropping us a line at 101 Tools, c/o Tolerance.org, 400 Washington Ave., Montgomery, AL 36104 or emailing us at 101tools@tolerance.org."
 A project of the Southern Poverty
When Law Center.

Ideas for Yourself

Ideas for Your Home

Ideas for Your School

Ideas for Your Workplace

Ideas for Your Community

http://www.simsbury.k12.ct.us/shs/
guidance/military.htm

http://www.veteransadvantage.com/
coverstory/PatrickDaley.htm

http://www.wired.com/news/games/
0,2101,53663,00.html?tw=wn_story_
related

http://www.wired.com/news/space
/0,2697,65151,00.html

http://www.ehow.com/how_8683_join-army.html

http://www.transcend.org/pctrcluj
2004/TRANSCEND_manual.pdf

http://www.colorado.edu/conflict/

http://www.sit.edu/contact/

http://www.transformative
mediation.org

http://www.peacemakers.ca/
bibliography/

http://www.transcend.org/tpu/courses.
shtmlAA_SL_Session=e3cf35ccbefa252
b00856fbb49d32cef&x=139

http://www.gsoa.ch/gsoa/en/
europe/interven.htm

http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/hum
anitarian_assistance/the_funds/dcof/

http://www.unicef.org/emerg/index
_displacedchildren.html

http://www.nrc.no/global_idp_survey
/rights_have_no_borders/cohen.htm

http://histclo.hispeed.com/essay/
war/ww1/ww1-dc.html

http://www.theirc.org/

http://www.al-bushra.org/hedchrch/un32.html

http://www.cartercenter.org/
peaceprograms/peacepgm.htm

http://www.cartercenter.org/support/
showdoc.aspdocname=donateonline
page&submenu=support

http://www.hollywood.com/news/
detail/article/2440270

http://www.fcjsisters.ca/HamiltonHouse
/detprocess/refdetproc.html

http://www.volunteer.org.nz/ghana
/refugeecamp/

http://www.pegasus.rutgers.edu/~wrlr/

http://www.al-bushra.org/hedchrch/un32.html

http://www.law-lib.utoronto.ca/Diana/

http://www.awid.org/

http://www.amnestyusa.org/women
/index.do

http://www.aclu.org/WomensRights/
WomensRightsMain.cfm

http://iwraw.igc.org/

http://www.legalmomentum.org/

http://www.madre.org/

http://www.globalissues.org/Human
Rights/WomensRights.asp

http://billie.lib.duke.edu/pub
docs/ngo/women.asp

http://www.wvecouncil.org/

http://www.moveon.org/front/

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALL
POLITICS
/01/19/scotus.cheney.scalia/

http://www.causecommunications.
com/diy/watchdoggroups.html

http://home.att.net/~Resurgence
/Msub33.htm

http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us:8080/tserve
/twenty/tkeyinfo/chr_rght.htm

http://www.publiceye.org/
magazine/v16n2/PE_Butler2.html

http://www.cbn.com/

http://anticipatoryretaliation.mu.nu/

http://www.ancestry.com/learn/
library/article.aspx?article=8272

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/
mi_go2821/is_200303/ai_n7597610

http://www.hillel.org/Hillel/NewHille.
nsf/0/C2265B14F5AE03C085256CE70053
FB1C?OpenDocument

http://repository.upenn.edu/
dissertationsAAI3073056/

http://www.trinstitute.org/ojpcr
/2_2ahaspr.htm

http://faculty.msmc.edu/lindeman
/piz5.html

http://www.pinn.net/~sunshine
/biblio/antholgy.html

http://www.pinn.net/~sunshine/
march99/pizan3.html

http://reactor-core.org/rights-of-women.html

http://www.ingentaconnect.com/
content/routledg/gcjr/2005/000000
08/00000001/art00008   

http://www.h-net.org/~hst203/documents/
friedan1.html

http://www.genocidewatch.org/
HOWWECANPREVENTGENOCIDE.htm

http://www.webster.edu/~wool
flm/psholocaust.html

http://pages.framingham.k12.ma.
us/fhsss/socialsciences/Curriculum%20Maps/genocide.htm  

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Steps+to+Genocide%22&hl=en&lr=&start=10&sa=N

http://www.peacekidz.com/peacefairs/

http://www.people4peace.net/

http://www3.unesco.org/iycp/
uk/uk_sommaire.htm

http://www.culture-of-peace.info/

http://www.culture-of-peace.info/cultureofpeace.html

http://www.culture-of-peace.info/ssov-
intro.html

http://culture.yurope.com/who.html

http://www.peace.ca/vowworkshop
kit.htm

http://www.fiu.edu/~fcf/cumrks
121700.html

http://www.nhi.org/online/issues/
112/sheltershorts.html

http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/
news/topstories/display.var.458126.0.
mayor_marches_for_human_rights.php

http://seven_times_six.blogspot.
com/2005/01/aggression.html

http://museums.cnd.org/CND-US/CND-US.96/CND-US.96-09-21.html

http://www.quangduc.com/BoTat
QuangDuc/17nonviolent.html

http://www.americanoriginal
scds.com/sonialive.htm
 

http://www.hrw.org/

http://www.hrw.org/english/
docs/2005/05/19/usdom10981.htm

http://docs.lib.duke.edu/igo/
guides/ngo/

http://billie.lib.duke.edu/pub
docs/ngo/rights.asp

http://www.africaninstitute.
org/eng/index.php   

http://www.banglarights.
net/index.htm

http://billie.lib.duke.edu/pub
docs/ngo/women.asp

http://www.lib.umich.edu/
govdocs/forcoun.html

http://www.unv.org/infobase
/facts/fshuman_rights.htm  

14.  Do further research into current events which might lead to human rights violations or current human rights violations.

http://www.bhhrg.org/

http://www.transnational.org/links
/conf_resolution.html

http://www.betterworldlinks.org/

http://www.globalissues.org/

http://www.hrw.org/events/

http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/sudan98/
 

http://dir.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture
/Issues_and_Causes/Human_Rights/

http://www.speaktruth.org/  

http://www.oneworldphoto.org/

http://www.childtrafficking.com/
Content/aboutus.php

http://www.antislavery.org.uk/
homepage/resources/link.htm

http://www.stop-traffic.org/

http://freetheslaves.net/

http://www.antislavery.org/
the oldest human rights association in the world  (1839)

http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/
scuk/jsp/whatwedo/theme.jsp?section=exploitationprotection

United Nations Working Group on
Contemporary Forms of Slavery :
http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu
6/2/training.htm

http://www2.acf.hhs.gov/trafficking/
about/children_victims.html   

http://www.ppu.org.uk/learn/
peaceed/pe_ednetcurriculum.html

http://www.peacefulschools
international.org/links.htm

http://www.paxchristi.net/work
/html/nv_actions.php?issue_id=17&

http://www.disarmsecure.org/
publications/papers/liftingworld.html

http://www.peace.ca/Conference
2002OutcomeDocument.htm

http://www.humanities.mcmaster.
ca/~mpeia/thelatest.html

http://www.fes.de/europolity/Summary
Agh.htm

http://encarta.msn.com/readings_
761563138/Sweden.html

http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:xKfe7WUmtCcJ:www.journal.law.
mcgill.ca/abs/vol42/1olive.pdf+%22Creating+Social+Democracy%22&hl=en

http://www.ambedkar.org/research/
DEMOCRACY_A_FORM.htm

http://www.nepd.org.uk/

http://countrystudies.us/uruguay/13.htm

http://www.mainegreens.org/electoral/
party/platform1996/poldemo.htm

http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated
/Poverty/EconomicDemocracy.asp

http://www.postcarbon.org/subpage.php?page=programspolicy&sub=harelbfellow

http://www.infoforhealth.org/pr
/l11edsum.shtml

http://www.vahealth.org/civp/sexual
violence/menendingviolence/
index.html

http://www.bahai.org.uk/dp/evif.htm

http://www.oxfam.org.uk/what_we_
do/issues/gender/bp66_evaw.htm

http://www.culture-of-peace.info/intervention/chapter7-17.html

http://www.starhawk.org/
activism/activism-writings/jan17.html

http://www.mumia2000.org/maj
writing/M20contingent.html

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22+Institutions+of+War%22&hl=en&lr=&start=10&sa=N

http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/

http://www.msf.org/

http://www.msf.org.au/

www.stopnato.org.uk/roma/
roma.html 

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/?ltl=
1111416620
 

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/
petition/internet.htm

http://www.gp.org/

http://www.votenader.org/

http://www.greenparty.org.uk/

http://www.greens.org/

This is what should be done by those who are skilled in seeking the good, having attained the way of peace:

...Whatever living beings there are, whether they be weak or strong- omitting none-
Whether long, large, average, short, big or small,
Seen or unseen, dwelling near or far
Born or to be born-may all beings be happy.

Let no one deceive another or despise anyone anywhere.
Let none out of anger or hostility wish suffering upon another.

Just as a mother would protect with her life her own child, her only child,
So should one cultivate a boundless mind toward all beings and friendliness toward the entire world.

One should cultivate a boundless mind-above, below and across,
Without obstruction, hatred, or enmity.

Standing, walking, sitting, or lying
down, throughout all one's
waking hours,
One should practice this mindfulness; this, they say, is the supreme
state....

Translated by the Nolanda Translation Committee, Excerpted from "Friendliness" a translation of the Metta Sutta.

Shambala Sun, May 2005.

http://lists.iww.org/pipermail/iww-news/2003-January/001184.html

http://www.vvaw.org/veteran/article/?id=484&print=yes 

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22Consequences+of+Violence%22&btnG=Google+Search

http://www.batteredmen.com
/batrNVAWf.htm

http://www.psych.org/public_i
nfo/media_violence.cfm

http://www.psych.org/public_info/

http://www.hawaii.edu/medicine/
pediatrics/parenting/c33.html

http://www.geocities.com/dvic2/
conseq.html

http://www.nomadicpix.com/pages/
bio.htm

http://www.campusaction.net/
activist_toolbox/How%20To/organize_a_campaign.htm

http://oee.nrcan.gc.ca/transportation
/idling/material/tool-kit-introduction.cfm?attr=0

http://www.unitedwayottawa.ca/english
/campaigntoolkit/campaigninaday.htm

http://www.wetlandspreserve.org/
internships/rrapplications.html 

http://nobelprize.org/peace/laureates/
1988/un-history.html

http://reference.allrefer.com/country-guide-study/cyprus/cyprus160.html

http://www.pmo.gov.to/index.php/
articles/184

http://www.pmo.gov.to/index.
php/articles/184

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/
article.cgifile=/chronicle/archive/2004/
02/05/MNGST4PF7K1.DTL  

http://www.thenation.com/docprint.
mhtml?i=20031020&s=ireland

http://indorgs.virginia.edu/uvapride
/view_news.php?newsID=91

http://www.workers.org/ww/2004/
samesex0226.php

http://www.well.com/user/jct/Sreedhav's_
Poems_2/In_Torment.htm

http://biology.queensu.ca/~scb/041
104.htm

http://www.bartleby.com/62/25/
D0472500.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/
panorama/3577575.stm

http://www.cbpp.org/12-17-04socsec.htm

http://www.suntimes.com/output/
mitchell/cst-nws-mitch14.html

http://hbswk.hbs.edu/pubitem.
html?id=3774&t=nonprofit

http://www.nwrel.org/nwedu/09-02/
social.asp

http://www.angsbacka.se/teacher/
Marshall%20Rosenberg/index.php

http://www.bapd.org/gbanon-2.html

http://www.co-intelligence.org/P-nonviolentcomm.html

http://www.nonviolentcommunication.
com/community/Promo_Kit/Media_
Comm_Relations/About_MR_CNVC_
NVC.pdf

http://www.cnvc.org/mrbio.htm

www.muslimwakeup.com/main/
archives/
hug_a_jew/index.php - 43k -
Apr 16, 2005  

http://www.gsoa.ch/gsoa/en
/europe/interven.htm

http://www.nhrdbangalore.com/Library/
why-downsize.htm

http://isc.bke.hu/htm/course/iec684.htm

http://www.pitt.edu/~nsp3/jobs.html

http://www.nhrdbangalore.com/Library/
why-downsize.htm

http://isc.bke.hu/htm/course/iec684.htm

http://www.pitt.edu/~nsp3/jobs.html

http://www.motherjones.com/news/featur
ex/2003/07/we_455_01.html 

http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=6008

http://www.dom.com/index.jsp

http://www.need.org/awards/2001awards
/2001schools_year.htm

http://www.portlandtribune.com/arch
view.cgi?id=27799

http://www.wsws.org/workers/1998/
dec1998/coal-d18.shtml

http://www.wvgs.wvnet.edu/www/
geology/geoldvco.htm   

30. Uses of active nonviolent actions have been the result of a conscious decision by those who organised and prepared the
revolutions.  From paper:
Peace research needs to reorient by Jorgen Johansen

http://www.aforcemorepowerful.org/
resources/nonViolent198.htm

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%22Peace+People++in+Iraq%22&btnG=Search

http://pora.org.ua/en/content/
view/499/2/

http://www.gsoa.ch/gsoa/en/europe
/interven.htm

http://archives.samizdat.net/globe
_l/200002/msg00190.html

http://www.alligator.org/pt2/
050405cuba.php
 

http://www.cipe.org/publications
/fs/ert/e35/e35_02.htm

http://www.cdi.org/russia/
johnson/4136.html

31. Call the Police.

http://www.fortliberty.org/patriotic-humor/how-to-call-the-police.shtml

http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/badboys/
callthepolicemarvelbonzaimix.htm

http://www.gov.on.ca/MBS/english
/myontarioweb/abuse-police.html

http://www.acjnet.org/victims/
police.htm

http://www.renewamerica.us/
columns/lemiska/041030

http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/cida_ind.nsf/0/6D0279B929
D7450A85256A11005478FF?
OpenDocument

http://www.fairtrade.net/
 

http://www.ipsnews.net/focus/tv_g77/
viewstory.asp?idn=276

http://www.ficci.com/ficci/media-room/speeches-presentations/2002/
nov/nov-cop-8.htm

http://www.transfairusa.org/

http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/

33.  Non-cooperation (deliberate withdrawal of cooperation with person, activity, institution or regime with which the
activists areengaged in abuse of human rights.

http://www.aforcemorepowerful.org/
resources/nonViolent198.htm

http://pdamerica.org/newsletter
/2005-04-13/national-guard.php

http://www.freeindia.org/biographies/
greatleaders/lalalajpatrai/page12.htm

http://www.indiansaga.info/history/non
_cooperation.html

http://acertainslantoflight.blogs
pot.com/2005/03/non-cooperation
-with-evil-is-moral.html

http://www.fairus.org/Immigration
IssueCenters/ImmigrationIssue
Centers.cfm?ID=2237&c=13

http://www.gandhi.ca/gandhi/
quotes/non-cooperation.php

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Cooperation_Movement

http://hrw.org/english/docs/2000
/12/15/afghan623.htm

http://www.theolympian.com/
home/news/20050201/opinion/
79469.shtml

http://www.galleryofguns.com/
shootingtimes/Articles/Display
Articles.asp?ID=6426

http://www.space.com/news
/russia_china_020627.html

http://newmedia.colorado.edu
/silverandgold/messages/
2327.html

http://english.people.com.cn/200308/01/
eng20030801_121476.shtml

35.  Try to stay away from the
wrong-doer.

http://teenadvice.about.com/
library/weekly/aa101600a.htm

http://teenadvice.miningco.com
/library/weekly/aa101600a.htm

http://www.selfdefenseforums.com/
forums/archive/index.php/t-8060.html

http://www.apahelpcenter.org/
featuredtopics/feature.php?id=38&ch=3

http://www.indiapolicy.org/lists/india_
policy/1998/Nov/msg00186.html

http://southpaw.goodshow.net
/archives/000364.html

http://www.perspectives.com/
forums/forum71/31253.html

Peace Museum Garden Photo 2.
Pavilion and herbs
Peace Museum Garden Photo 3.
Buddha, San Francisco Botanical Garden
Peace Museum Garden Photo 4.
Sunshine Farm& Garden, Renick,
 WV
Peace Museum Garden Photo 5.
Bathtub in the Garden, W.V.
Peace Museum Garden Photo 6.
The Asian Garden, San
Francisco,CA.
Peace Museum Garden Photo 7.
Road through Lavender Fields,
France

http://academic.bowdoin.edu/zen/

http://quixotic1.com/E/2005.04.
10/transnational-nonviolent-
empowerment/

http://vitw.org/ipt/index.html

http://trainingforchange.org/
content/view/89/33/

http://trainingforchange.org/
content/view/7/34/

http://www.aforcemorepowerful.org
/resources/nonViolent198.htm

http://www.gsoa.ch/gsoa/en/
europe/interven.htm

http://www.indyweek.com/durham/2001-05-30/movie2.html

 http://www.lewrockwell.com/
orig/trask7.html

http://www.inq7.net/opi/2004/
jan/18/opi_rjdavid-1.htm

http://www.pbs.org/weta/reporting
americaatwar/about/ep01.html

http://www.grabthemic.org/
community/node/15563

http://www.lewrockwell.com/
polner/polner8.html

http://www.writingourworldpress.
com/archive/remember.html

http://www.stthomasu.ca/new/
news/2004/march15.htm

http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=19863&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC
&URL_SECTION=201.html

http://www.icfj.org/science
programs.html

http://www.comminit.com/
pulse/pulse_27.html

http://www.iwpr.net/index.pl?training_upcomingworkshops.html

http://www.iwpr.net/index.pl?caucasus_pan_index.html

http://www.hirondelle.org/hirondelle
.nsf/ae38da31f7d9e228c125658
b006bd2a4?OpenView

http://www.cartercenter.org/default.asp?bFlash=True

http://www.parl.gc.ca/committee/
CommitteePublication.aspx?SourceId=61558

http://www.fin.gc.ca/news03/03-014e.html
 
http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Hornet/irin-120799.html

http://www.unescap.org/oes/state/
st020819.htm

http://www.optimistmag.org/gb/0017/
one.php?id=725

http://www.csis.org/pacfor/issues/
v05n02_appendix.cfm

http://www.arthurmjackson.com/
wchap21.html

http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/
n1901.cfm

http://www.fas.org/man/nato/news/
1998/hungary_europe_980107.htm 

http://theunjustmedia.com/UN/Scandals%20of%20Oil%20for%20Food.htm

http://www.democracy.org.na/
negotiate.php

http://www.unis.unvienna.org/unis/
pressrels/2001/sc7139.html

http://www.seasite.niu.edu/khmer/
Ledgerwood/free_and_fair.htm
 

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum
/a3918c1cd2796.htm

http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/i
p/orgs/global/unac-ncrb/reference/facts/peace.txt

http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/~amit/courses
/751/99/ravip/

http://www.tolerance-net.org/news/podium/podium041.html

http://www.dekalbdare.org/tolerance.html

http://www.isnm.de/projectinfo.php?id=13

http://www.english.education.gov.qa/
content/resources/detail/1478

http://www.interfaithfamily.com/
site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=ekLSK5MLIrG&b=297396&ct=418847

http://www.youth.org/loco/PERSON
Project/Alerts/States/Pennsylvania/
column2.html

       1.  Act

        2.  Unite

        3.  Support the Victims

        4.  Do Your Homework

        5.  Create an Alternative

        6.  Speak Up

        7.  Lobby Leaders

        8.  Look Long Range

        9.  Teach Tolerance

      10.  Dig Deeper

Print of the United Nations building in New York City - Bernard Buffet artist
This was the first thing my husband, Patrick Shannon O'Brien,  and I bought for our home-to-be in 1959.

Other Issues to be addressed as I learn more